Reiki Healing: Using the power of human touch.

v>- gives pain relief
- releases suppressed feelings
When our daily lives become stressful, this is a- treats the symptoms of illness
sign our energies are not balanced.  Reiki healing 
therapy aims to bring our energies into balanceIf you want to receive a Reiki healing treatment,
and bring health and well-being to our emotional,here is what you can expect in a typical healing
physical and spiritual systems. session.  The healer or practitioner will hold her
Reiki Healing: Using the power of human touch.hands on you or above you while you are fully
 clothed and lying down on a couch. The healer
Reiki is a healing technique or therapy designed tomoves their hands over your body channeling the
reduce stress and promote relaxation and peaceenergy to the required place to bring about
of mind.  The word Reiki is made up of twohealing.  The healer is able to know where to go
Japanese words — “Rei” which meansby allowing themselves to be spiritually guided to
“Higher Power or Wisdom” and the wordthe relevant area of the body.  The effect of
“Ki” which means “life force energy”.this technique is a warm feeling or tingling
Everything around us is composed of this energy.sensation.  It is generally a relaxing and soothing
 experience.  A treatment can last up to an hour
When our daily lives become stressful, this is aor more according to the type of healing required
sign our energies are not balanced.  Reiki healingand will often involve the movement of the hands
therapy aims to bring our energies into balanceacross the body using a number of standard hand
and bring health and well-being to our emotional,positions and covering most of the body’s
physical and spiritual systems.  It works on themajor organs.
assumption that we have natural healing abilities 
within our selves and it is the Reiki healingShould you want to be able to use this simple
technique that stimulates this process.  The roletechnique yourself, you can attend a class where
of the practitioner is to channel this “universalit is “transferred” rather than taught through
life energy” through to the recipient.an “attunement” given by a Reiki Master. 
 Here the student is given the ability to tap into
The founder of this technique was a Principle of athe “universal life energy” and to use it to
Christian seminary in the middle of the nineteenthimprove one’s own health and wellbeing.
century by the name of Mikao Usui.  He offered 
a set of guidelines for a healthy and peaceful lifeReiki is a simple, safe and non-invasive therapy
as well as advocating this technique to redressthat everyone can learn to use and benefit
any imbalances in our energy systems that resultfrom.  It has been used to bring relief from a
in physical illness or emotional upset or trauma. number of physical, emotional and spiritual
 problems.  There is no particular religious
Below are some of the benefits of Reiki healing:-philosophy behind its technique and therefore
 anybody can learn to give and receive Reiki
- stimulates natural self healing balances energieshealing.  Indeed its holistic approach to healing
in the bodymeans it can complement other medical and
- gives strength to our immune systemtherapeutic techniques.